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Patrick Harverson explains why the football authorities' waiving of their own rules will make more corporate takeovers difficult to prevent
It is understandable that there is a lot of anger within football about the proposed takeover of Manchester United by Rupert Murdoch’s British Sky Broadcasting. Any deal that combines the country’s most-liked club with its most-feared media tycoon is bound to go down like a lead balloon.
Borussia Dortmund are a modern and corporate club but that hasn't stopped them constructing a huge new standing terrace. Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger reports
It started to rain a few minutes into the game. No drizzle, mind you. Real, heavy rain. Thick, grey clouds. Chilly gusts. The works. We had been promised the roof would be ready in time for this, the first home game of the season but, meticulous planning being what it is, there were gaping holes above our heads. I always wear my lucky baseball cap and my old leather jacket on match days, so the weather didn’t bother me, but those around me who were either less superstitious or too trustful when it comes to workmen’s promises got soaking wet within seconds. What was more, the roofers had left piles of tiles lying around. They dammed up the water until it periodically came crashing down on our heads like a torrent from a giant bucket.
Davy Millar remembers the drubbing of Belgium and the shortest, most successful international career of all time
November 1977 and Windsor Park is looking less than inviting on a cold, grey Wednesday afternoon. Northern Ireland are rounding off another unsuccessful World Cup campaign with a game against Belgium, themselves trailing far behind group winners Holland. The Irish have staged one of their textbook qualifying bids, starting with a splendid draw in Rotterdam before going on to lose in Iceland. Small wonder that George Best has packed it in again. Enraged by such inconsistency, he’s decided there are better ways to spend a bleak, winter afternoon than casually humiliating some hapless Belgian.
With clubs getting desperate for overnight success, the concept of time is becoming an elusive commodity for managers
Two managers have been booted out of Premiership clubs after three games of the season, and although no one is crying in the streets at the departure of Kenny Dalglish or Christian Gross, the circumstances of their dismissal speak volumes for the feverish state of the game.
Neil Reynolds finds out more about the Baggies' visionary chairman
Distinguishing Features Fiftyish, with dark hair and a light moustache which gives the impression that one or other is false; they’re not.